A Chhatra League activist was shot dead in a classroom of Beanibazar Government College in Sylhet yesterday, around an hour after two factions of the student front clashed on the campus over establishing supremacy.

The Chittagong University authorities were forced to postpone a graduation test for journalism students on Thursday when activists of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) refused to allow examinees to enter the exam hall.

A group of activists of Jubo League and Bangladesh Chhatra League, youth bodies of ruling Awami League, beat up headmaster of a high school in Kushtia for submitting names of the school’s managing committee members without consulting with them.

A mobile court sentences a BCL leader to two years’ imprisonment after he was arrested along with a pistol at a polling centre in Hathazari upazila of Chittagong during the fourth phase of union parishad election.

Thirty-five eminent personalities of the country demand immediate withdrawal of all the cases filed against The Daily Star Editor and Publisher Mahfuz Anam a day after nine other eminent citizens expressed grave concern over the filing of more than 50 cases and issuance of summons against Anam.

A Bangladesh Chhatra League leader files a Tk 50-crore defamation case against The Daily Star editor for publishing reports based on information given by DGFI which allegedly tarnished the image of Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina. Meanwhile, a local BCL leader files another Tk 1-crore defamation case in Khulna on the same charge.

At least 35 people were injured in clashes between different factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) across the country as the pro-Awami League student organisation celebrated its 68th founding anniversary yesterday.

Traffic movement yesterday nearly came to a halt for several hours in many parts of the city as Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders and activists occupied many roads while going to the Dhaka University campus on trucks and in processions, causing untold sufferings to people.